Wed May 19, 2004 2:07 pm
I bought this scanner when it first came out a few months ago and am generally pleased with the results. I got it primarily to transfer my slides and negs from over 30 years of shooting both intermediate amateur stuff and plain old family events.
Many of the negs are beat up, with multiple scratches, etc. and Digital ICE does a fantastic job...a minute of scanning restores what would be laborious in a photo editor. The detail is amazing, 4000 dpi scans giving the equivalent of about a 23 megapixel image.
My main complaint has been the software, Nikon Scan. When scanning in batch, say four negs on a strip, it often crashes "Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close..." etc. I am running Windows XP on a 1.5 gig Athlon with 3/4 gig ram. If anyone else has encountered this problem, please post.
I have noticed in Task Manager that when scanning, my CPU usage maxes to 100%, so I'm still thinking it might not be software, but the computer instead.